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The bold, world-creating ideas of Jacek Dukaj and their bravura execution have made readers of his prose (most prominently, Lód [Ice]) begin to ask themselves more or less the following questions: “What will he think of next?” or “How far is he going to go?” These questions concern his work purely in terms of their literary qualities: the way he shifts the boundaries of what is imaginable, and shifts human language toward the boundary of the Other. (...)

What Do We Do with Poetics? – A Student’s Perspective

Wiktoria Tuńska

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Poetics class was always one of my favorite subjects in my college studies – I must admit it, loud and clear, since few of my classmates shared my opinion. My interest in that subject was probably due to the fact that I had become familiar with the foundations of poetics earlier on – and nothing helps as much as a good foundation. (...)

Dycio Generator. On the Variational Tendencies of Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki’s Poetry

Maja Staśko

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Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki is not a new media poet. All attempts at conversion, convergence, or interpretation notwithstanding, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki is not a new media poet. The aesthetics of error, glitch poetry, noises, clusters, strings, and, of course, cybernetic aesthetic categories, all find some justification here. (...)

From the XCOM Archive: How to defeat the Aliens and Stay Sane

Tomasz Z. Majkowski

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An aphorism from English science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke flashes in the darkness: “Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” The tremulous blue letters resemble a hologram displayed in the night sky, cut across by a falling star. (...)

Facetiae on Facebook – A Case Study

Barbara Kulesza-Gulczyńska

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On Facetiae

Social media such as the popular site Facebook were originally designed primarily to help people find their friends online, stay in contact with them, and make new friends. They allow people to exchange short messages in real time with a community that includes both close friends and casual acquaintances, concerning events of a private (or even intimate) nature, as well as thoughts and opinions on current events in the sociopolitical sphere, and to exchange interesting content via hyperlinks. (...)

That Absurd Entity, Poetry – Polish Translations of Marianne Moore’s Ars Poetica of the Moment

Ewa Rajewska

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Only bad writers find constant pleasure in writing; truly great authors have at least occasional fits of creative self-doubt.

On the other hand, it is well known that about two out of every thousand people enjoy reading poetry – not counting poets themselves. (...)

On the Pointlessness of Observation

Bartosz Kowalczyk

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What are we to do with these spring days that are now fast coming on? Early this morning the sky was gray, but if you go to the window now you are surprised and lean your cheek against the latch of the casement.
The sun is already setting, but down below you see it lighting up the face of the little girl who strolls along looking about her, and at the same time you see her eclipsed by the shadow of the man behind overtaking her. (...)

Transnational Modernism and the Problem of Temporal Spatialisation in Franz Kafka’s “The Great Wall of China”

Verita Sriratana

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On the level of textual content, it can be said that modernist literature reflects a preoccupation with the change in one’s views on and understanding of time and space in relation to human existence. The modernist project centres upon in-depth observation and representation of a distinct moment in time, rather than a chronological chain of events which has been understood to be the focus of literary realism. (...)

Bilingualism in the Writings of Jan Kochanowski

Agnieszka Kwiatkowska

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Throughout all of Europe from the early medieval period to the beginning of the sixteenth century, literatures in Latin and in the local vernacular developed independently from one another, with their mutual interaction occurring only in a very limited range of contexts. (...)

Opening Up Space. Everyday Life Practices and the Work of Piotr Paziński

Cezary Rosiński

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Marta Mizuro suggested in her review of Piotr Paziński’s The Boarding House that the residents of the Jewish rest home visited by the main character, supposedly his old friends, might in fact represent creatures of his memory, ghosts who haunt that place, rather than fully embodied characters. (...)

Practices

The Relocation of Literature

Piotr Gorliński-Kucik

a b s t r a k t

What Do We Do with Poetics? – A Student’s Perspective

Wiktoria Tuńska

a b s t r a c t

Dycio Generator. On the Variational Tendencies of Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki’s Poetry

Maja Staśko

a b s t r a c t

From the XCOM Archive: How to defeat the Aliens and Stay Sane

Tomasz Z. Majkowski

a b s t r a c t

Facetiae on Facebook – A Case Study

Barbara Kulesza-Gulczyńska

a b s t r a c t

On Facetiae

That Absurd Entity, Poetry – Polish Translations of Marianne Moore’s Ars Poetica of the Moment

Ewa Rajewska

a b s t r a c t

On the Pointlessness of Observation

Bartosz Kowalczyk

a b s t r a c t

Transnational Modernism and the Problem of Temporal Spatialisation in Franz Kafka’s “The Great Wall of China”

Verita Sriratana

a b s t r a c t

Bilingualism in the Writings of Jan Kochanowski

Agnieszka Kwiatkowska

a b s t r a c t

Opening Up Space. Everyday Life Practices and the Work of Piotr Paziński

Cezary Rosiński

a b s t r a c t